Alvaro Bautista ‘not super happy’ but fastest as high winds mean ‘nothing’ learned
Alvaro Bautista admits day-one of the Dutch WorldSBK ro𒐪und will hav🐼e very little bearing on the rest of the weekend.
Despite finishing fastest, two-time WorldSBK champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista was not completely thrilled.
Damp patches and heavy winds meant an accurate assessment of where e🦋veryone stands was hard to make.
But the factory Ducati rider did claim to have a similar feeling as Barcelona, which🐬 could bode well for Bautista, who won Race 2 at the Catalan round.
“With the weather it was very hard here,” began Bautista. “With the rain,😼 the wind; the in the afternoon was too strong and in the back straight, when you came out of the paddock zone you could🎃 just feel the wind.
“I had to do the straight with lean [angle] otherwise I would have gone out of the track. It was r꧅eally difficult in some areas of the track.
“But at least in this condition I found good feedback with the bike, similar to Barcelona. It was difficult for ev🎐erybody.
“I’m not💧 super happy but a♚t least we are quite good. We will see tomorrow what the weather is doing.”
Asked what he could learn on a day where limiꦆted grip and dry tra⭕ck time was on offer, Bautista said not much.
“Nothing, because the reference from the previous years ไcan’t be used,” added the Spaniard. “The track needs to have more rubber.
“Even in the morning, if we had almost the whole sessi♏on d꧙ry but the grip was low. In the afternoon, it was similar.
“Between FP1 and FP2 it rained a lot and the small rubber put down disappeared. So ꦯin the afternoon we had the same conditions.
“The only difference in the after🌟noon was that I was usingꦑ the tyres I normally like and I felt comfortable, but in these conditions it is difficult to make two laps with the same line because the wind pushed you out in many areas. It’s difficult to learn something.”
Conditions aside, Bautis꧒ta was fast and consistent which was also the case in Barcelona.
But one area Bautista will want that to carry over to is Superpole, which has ꦯbeen his weakness so far in 2024.
Bautista said: “Superpole is always important because ꦗyou get a position for the grid and this year it is [m🔜ore] important to get a good position at the beginning.
“The lap times are very close and you cannot recover the gap. The Superpole has ♓not been our strong poin🏅t so far this season.
“I struggled with the feeling in the first two rounds. Let’s see here. We h🗹ave to try and adapt to the conditions on the trac🍃k.”
